Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century

Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long...

Author: Michael D. Hurley (University Lecturer and Fellow in English, St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge) ,  Marcus Waithe (University Senior Lecturer, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198737827
Format: Hardback
$221.95

This ambitious and timely book reconceives style as having the capacity to clarify or generate thinking, rather...  Read More >>

Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship

Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship...

Author: Carrie Hyde
ISBN: 9780674976153
Format: Hardback
$86.95

No Constitutional definition of citizenship existed until the 14th Amendment in 1868. Carrie Hyde looks at the period...  Read More >>

Herman Melville in Context

Herman Melville in Context

Author: Kevin J. Hayes (University of Central Oklahoma)
ISBN: 9781107169760
Format: Hardback
$282.04

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I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters

I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters

Author: Christopher Hager
ISBN: 9780674737648
Format: Hardback
$74.95

For men in the Union and Confederate armies and their families at home, letter writing was the sole means to communicate....  Read More >>

Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life

Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life

Author: Samantha Ellis
ISBN: 9781784701116
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte,...  Read More >>

Essays on Religion in G. Eliot's Early Fiction

Essays on Religion in G. Eliot's Early Fiction

Author: J. H. Mazaheri
ISBN: 9781527505780
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This series of essays explores the relationship between religion and literature in George Eliot's early fiction....  Read More >>

Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth...

Author: Cristin Ellis
ISBN: 9780823278459
Format: Paperback
$87.12

""Antebellum Posthuman exposes the volatility of ""the human""--torn between liberalism and empiricism--in the 1850s...  Read More >>

Rafts and Other Rivercraft: in Huckleberry Finn

Rafts and Other Rivercraft: in Huckleberry Finn

Author: Peter G. Beidler
ISBN: 9780826221384
Format: Hardback
$113.52

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Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth...

Author: Cristin Ellis
ISBN: 9780823278442
Format: Hardback
$303.60

""Antebellum Posthuman exposes the volatility of ""the human""--torn between liberalism and empiricism--in the 1850s...  Read More >>

The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel

The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel

Author: Robin Gilmour
ISBN: 9781138671072
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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Picturing: Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth Century Novel

Picturing: Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth...

Author: Michael Irwin
ISBN: 9781138648920
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Herman Melville: Modernity and the Material Text

Herman Melville: Modernity and the Material Text

Author: Katie McGettigan
ISBN: 9781512601374
Format: Paperback
$91.30

In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement...  Read More >>

One Foot in the Finite: Melville's Realism Reclaimed

One Foot in the Finite: Melville's Realism Reclaimed...

Author: K.L. Evans
ISBN: 9780810136120
Format: Paperback
$100.32

One Foot in the Finite uses Moby-Dick to rethink literary realism. It argues that Melville's realist writing doesn't...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt...

Author: Susanna Ashton
ISBN: 9781603293327
Format: Paperback
$85.99

Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán

Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo...

Author: Margot Versteeg ,  Susan Walter
ISBN: 9781603293235
Format: Paperback
$85.99

“Emilia Pardo Bazán is without a doubt the most prolific and influential woman writer of late-nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt...

Author: Susanna Ashton
ISBN: 9781603293310
Format: Hardback
$181.50

Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán

Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo...

Author: Margot Versteeg ,  Susan Walter
ISBN: 9781603293228
Format: Hardback
$181.50

“Emilia Pardo Bazán is without a doubt the most prolific and influential woman writer of late-nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

One Foot in the Finite: Melville's Realism Reclaimed

One Foot in the Finite: Melville's Realism Reclaimed...

Author: K.L. Evans
ISBN: 9780810136137
Format: Hardback
$316.80

One Foot in the Finite uses Moby-Dick to rethink literary realism. It argues that Melville's realist writing doesn't...  Read More >>

Prekäre Idyllen in der Erzählliteratur des deutschsprachigen Realismus

Prekäre Idyllen in der Erzählliteratur des deutschsprachigen...

Author: Sabine Schneider ,  Marie Drath
ISBN: 9783476045195
Format: Hardback
$237.57

Die Beiträge loten dabei stets die Frage aus, ob die jeweiligen Texte in eine abwehrende Geste der Verklärung flüchten...  Read More >>

Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest for Knowledge

Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest...

Author: Katie Garner
ISBN: 9781137597113
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship,...  Read More >>

Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry...

Author: Tríona Ní Shíocháin
ISBN: 9781785337673
Format: Hardback
$356.40

The songs of the beloved Irish poet Maire Bhui Ni Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection,...  Read More >>

American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World

American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary...

Author: Michelle Sizemore (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780190627539
Format: Hardback
$254.00

American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts...  Read More >>

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